The _UpdateRecords function in ListAdmin.py is completely broken, and has been since 2.1.5. There is a bugreport filed in 2004 at https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/266106, and a patch for the issue was included in march 2005. It seems the issue has gone unnoticed, though. Possibly because the title of the bug report is "Tend to Pending Moderator Requests breaks on a few lists", which doesn't seem all that bad.
The _UpdateRecords function in ListAdmin.py reads the two-element tuple (op, info). It then checks if info has all necessary fields. If it has, nothing is done. If info _doesn't_ have all necessary fields (e.g. comes from an old version of mailman), the missing fields are added and info saved back. Notice how "info" is different from "(op, info)". This causes all subsequent access to subscription and held message records to fail with a ValueError, since an info typle is not 2 elements long. I think it would be very nice to have this fixed in 2.1.11. But even if that doesn't happen I thought I should notify people about the problem, so they know what to do if their upgrade causes trouble. -- Knut Auvor Grythe ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
